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Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions

2 hodiny 46 min zpět
One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support

7. Květen 2026 - 22:44
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

7. Květen 2026 - 17:03
The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

7. Květen 2026 - 16:21
Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

7. Květen 2026 - 15:26
The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute

7. Květen 2026 - 14:00
While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.

Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement

7. Květen 2026 - 13:20
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code...

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

7. Květen 2026 - 11:29
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...

New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

7. Květen 2026 - 11:17
When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...

SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs

7. Květen 2026 - 11:06
AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...

Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

7. Květen 2026 - 1:22
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...

D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements

7. Květen 2026 - 0:43
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...

Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

6. Květen 2026 - 21:03
Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...

PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth

6. Květen 2026 - 20:53
The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...

Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows

6. Květen 2026 - 18:30
Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows...

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance

6. Květen 2026 - 17:00
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"

6. Květen 2026 - 14:53
Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!..

Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute

6. Květen 2026 - 14:22
Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications...

Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service

6. Květen 2026 - 14:10
Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

6. Květen 2026 - 13:30
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API...